The cover of issue 288 bears the photo of Giorgio Gaber, the satirical singer-songwriter who recently passed away. Inside, a special dossier on Gaber, with contributions by Mauro Macario, Luciano Lanza and Piero Brunello.

War is in the air, and Maria Matteo reminds “A” readers of what good friends of the US administration Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden once were; Antonio Cardella traces the links between war and economic crisis; and a member of the music group “Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti” tells about a concert for peace that they took part in last November, 2002, in Baghdad.

From North America, Elena Barbieri and Gianni Sartori interview the Lakota Sioux poet, Gilbert Douville, and Maurizio Molinari gives a detailed account of his work with the Tierra y Libertad group on development projects in Chiapas.

by Leslie Ray